Community groups denounce violence toward Asian Americans in Bay Area and beyond KGO OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- When a large, black hearse rolled into Colma's Woodlawn Funeral Home, it marked the end of a long, dignified life taken in the midst of an agonizing racial crisis. "I want to talk about what the problem really is. To tell the truth," said Eric Lawson, the son-in-law of 84-year-old Vichan Ratanapakdee, who died after being attacked in Francisco's Anza Vista neighborhood. "The community should be able to feel safe walking down the street," said Lawson. That has not been possible, recently. Today, eight different Asian community groups denounced hundreds of attacks locally and thousands nationally in the last year, and before that, even.